Fierce Convictions, Karen Swallow Prior
Fierce Convictions, Karen Swallow Prior
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Fierce Convictions
The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

Author: Karen Swallow Prior

Narrator: Christine Stevens

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 11/18/2014


Synopsis

Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield’s Great Awakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects of the French Revolution.With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace. The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and taught a nation how to read.The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-Century British society through her keen intellect, literary achievements, collaborative spirit, strong Christian principles, and colorful personality. A woman without connections or status, More took the world of British letters by storm when she arrived in London from Bristol, becoming a best-selling author and acclaimed playwright and quickly befriending the author Samuel Johnson, the politician Horace Walpole, and the actor David Garrick. Yet she was also a leader in the Evangelical movement, using her cultural position and her pen to support the growth of education for the poor, the reform of morals and manners, and the abolition of Britain’s slave trade.Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield’s Great Awakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects of the French Revolution. A woman of exceptional intellectual gifts and literary talent, Hannah More was above all a person whose faith compelled her both to engage her culture and to transform it.

About Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior is Research Professor of English and Christianity & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She is an award-winning author and one of today's leading evangelical writers and commentators. Her book On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books was recognized as a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year in Religion in 2018.


Reviews

Goodreads review by R.J. on February 19, 2017

Wow what a woman and what a life she led! I needed to read this. Hannah More was an amazing woman who led a life of influence in her generation - using her pen and the means at her disposal to fight slavery, educate the poor, rebuke the upper class and point to a greater faith in Christ. She had an......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on February 03, 2022

I just realized that I never gave this book a proper review. Well, it's about time. I read this book at a point in my life I was discouraged. I got this on audio because I was curious about Hannah More and the cover was so pretty. I went in knowing very little about Hannah. I came out feeling like we......more

Goodreads review by Philip on January 03, 2015

Karen Swallow Prior has done an amazing job at revealing to us the life of Hannah More. Hannah More was an author, poet, reformer, and abolitionist. She, with the work of a pen, helped to abolish the slave trade, educate the poor, and bring about reform to the upper class. Her piety for orthodox Chr......more

Goodreads review by ladydusk on April 18, 2019

Own. I've long wanted to read this - I've had it for Kindle for a number of years, but just never could get moving on it. This winter I went ahead and bought all of Prior's books when On Reading Well came out. I'm glad I started here. I very much enjoyed reading about More, her life and her work. She w......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on June 28, 2018

A wonderfully informative book on the 18th century poet, reformer, and abolitionist Hannah More, who worked wonders with her pen. As the author says about Hannah, “She was a woman with virtues and flaws, faith and fears, vision and blind spots. But she was also one whose unique gifts and fierce conv......more